tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239140084937897595.post6307510423585813837..comments2023-10-19T10:26:30.108-04:00Comments on Yin and Yang: An Old Friend's BirthdayUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7239140084937897595.post-39082091131295442542011-11-09T07:42:03.259-05:002011-11-09T07:42:03.259-05:00Dear Kate,
Your descriptions are really good. I ...Dear Kate,<br /><br />Your descriptions are really good. I especially like the sentence where you physically describe Collette. In all you give a sense of the general world each person lives in.<br /><br />I think it is very brave how open you are about your emotions - and like a greedy woman for more gossip I gobble down the intimate details - it is so very very good to be intimate in writing. I don't think since I've started reading your blog I've seen the narrator so vulnerable, and this is a form of intimacy. It really hooks the reader. This reaffirms my conviction that you would make a good memoir writer, if you are so willing to bare your soul.<br /><br />Your memory is very good, another plus for writing a memoir. I couldn't remember the type of details with my friends that adds to the richness of your writing. Hell, I can't remember names, only faces. My memory sucks.<br /><br />I too had a friend that I felt so close to I could have easily kissed her. I adored her. When she moved on, didn't cement the friendship and grew distant, it was a blow. I knew her in college and she was Japanese and very very beautiful and mysterious.<br /><br />I did contact my first true love and best friend boyfriend from college, found him on facebook, and received a nice short letter promising to catch up when he had time and then nothing. I wrote a second time and sent a link to my website so he could look at my artwork, and when he didn't respond I took the hint and left him alone. His rejection troubled me deeply, basically because I thought he was a nicer guy and I had been special. But I know now that youthful personalities change, and perhaps I didn't know him as well as I thought.<br /><br />I take away from my experience the perception that people have busy lives, their own agenda, and that if you don't make contact, you will never know - but be prepared for that special person to freeze you out. <br /><br />Was writing this essay one step closer to contacting your old friend?<br /><br />All my love,<br />KarenKaren May Sorensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14436905322393073250noreply@blogger.com